Top 100 Berenson Quotes
#1. Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.
Paul Bley
#2. In Sardinia one summer my best friend Marisa Berenson and I ironed each other's hair. We used a hot laundry iron and took turns putting our hair on the ironing board, literally ironing it. That's a recipe for straightening that may be highly successful, but is definitely not recommended.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#3. The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.
Rachel Cohen
#4. I've fought for more than three years. I was just thirteen when I started. I'm sixteen now, though that fact, like so many facts, has been deliberately obscured in the secret accounts we've kept.
I'm a sixteen-year-old kid named Jake Berenson, and I am the leader of the Animorphs.
Katherine Applegate
#5. You tell a lot of lies, Ms. Berenson," he said. Berenson said nothing. Neagley said, "She's Human Resources. It's what they do.
Lee Child
#8. [Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
Bernard Berenson
#9. The Wahhabists are the boogeymen, the guys who will chop the head off any American they catch. And they will destroy Iraq without a second thought if they believe that the instability will benefit them.
Alex Berenson
#10. Most companies can survive even if their debt ratings are lowered below investment grade, although they will have higher borrowing costs.
Alex Berenson
#11. In the short run, using militias might be the quickest and easiest way to improve order on Iraq's streets and uproot the terrorists and guerrillas who routinely attack American troops and civilian targets.
Alex Berenson
#12. When all the plants in a region are running at full steam, there is simply no way to get more power.
Alex Berenson
#13. Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?
Alex Berenson
#14. Iraq is short on capital, short on electricity, and short on management expertise, but it does not lack economic enthusiasm.
Alex Berenson
#15. At any moment, one company stands in the spotlight of the middle ring in the stock market's never-ending circus. It may not be the biggest corporation in the world, or the most profitable, but somehow it both mirrors and leads the market's broader action.
Alex Berenson
#17. Microeconomics is the study of how specific choices made by businesses, consumers and governments affect the markets for different goods and services. For example, a microeconomist might examine how price changes affect sales of apples relative to oranges.
Alex Berenson
#18. He's not the only one who's got people to worry about," Rachel said. "I have a family. We
all do."
"Not me," Tobias said softly. He smiled his sad, crooked smile. "It's true. No one gives a rat's
rear about me."
"I do," Rachel said.
K.A. Applegate
#19. Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.
Alex Berenson
#20. Because Genentech is a leading developer of cancer therapies, some doctors also fear that the company's pricing plans for Avastin - around $8,800 a month - may encourage other companies to charge more for their own oncology drugs.
Alex Berenson
#21. Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
Bernard Berenson
#22. Even technology companies get good news sometimes.
Alex Berenson
#23. Many legal experts note that prosecutors regularly seek indictments of people or companies for destroying evidence or impeding investigations, even if they cannot prove other charges.
Alex Berenson
#24. Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.
Alex Berenson
#25. Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with existing therapies.
Alex Berenson
#26. When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
Bernard Berenson
#27. For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.
Alex Berenson
#28. From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings.
Alex Berenson
#29. Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data.
Alex Berenson
#30. Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.
Alex Berenson
#31. Like many other banks and finance companies, Green Tree used a process called securitization to resell its home loans to outside investors. Green Tree grouped thousands of these small loans into a pool worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Alex Berenson
#32. For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
Alex Berenson
#33. Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.
Alex Berenson
#34. Normally, banks record profits on loans only as they are repaid, whether they securitize the loans or hold them on their books.
Alex Berenson
#35. The Fed's ability to raise and lower short-term interest rates is its primary control over the economy.
Alex Berenson
#36. Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.
Bernard Berenson
#38. Enron Field in Houston, the Trans World Dome in St. Louis and PSINet Stadium in Baltimore are just three of the modern-day coliseums named for companies that have found new homes in bankruptcy court.
Alex Berenson
#39. For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.
Alex Berenson
#40. Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
Bernard Berenson
#41. Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.
Alex Berenson
#42. Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.
Alex Berenson
#43. The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
Alex Berenson
#44. German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
Bernard Berenson
#45. Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
Bernard Berenson
#46. To finance deficits, the government must sell bonds to investors, competing for capital that could otherwise be used to invest in stocks or corporate bonds. Government borrowings raise long-term interest rates, stifling economic growth.
Alex Berenson
#47. Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson
#48. America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.
Alex Berenson
#49. Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?
Alex Berenson
#50. I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I felt very lonely: my mother thought I was extremely difficult and my grandmother was extremely severe.
Marisa Berenson
#51. The credit quality of junk bonds varies widely.
Alex Berenson
#52. Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
Alex Berenson
#53. Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson
#54. I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
Bernard Berenson
#55. Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.
Alex Berenson
#56. Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'
Alex Berenson
#57. To economists, prices serve as crucial signals to producers and consumers. In a regulated market, the state sets prices high enough for private companies to cover their costs and earn a guaranteed profit for their investors. But in a deregulated market, prices should vary with demand and supply.
Alex Berenson
#58. Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
Alex Berenson
#59. Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
Bernard Berenson
#60. Sochi started with the same problem as every Winter Olympics. Forget the crass commercialism, the fake amateurism, NBC's refusal to televise important events live to all its viewers. As an event, the Winter Games fail on the most basic level. They're lousy to watch.
Alex Berenson
#61. I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
Bernard Berenson
#62. Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.
Alex Berenson
#63. For value investors, General Motors is a tempting target. The company's share of the North American auto market has steadily declined for two decades, and analysts say the company suffers from weak management and unexciting cars.
Alex Berenson
#64. A vote of confidence from Cisco Systems can be very important to fledging technology companies, especially if they have initial public offerings on the horizon.
Alex Berenson
#65. Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.
Alex Berenson
#66. Equity is the cushion that protects financial institutions from unexpected changes in the value of their assets. The greater the leverage, the smaller the losses required to wipe out a company's equity, leaving it without enough money to repay the people who hold its debt.
Alex Berenson
#67. I'm a free spirit, so if I am with someone it has to be a man who understands that, and not all men do.
Marisa Berenson
#68. With 950 reporters and 79 bureaus, Bloomberg competes to break news with Dow Jones, Reuters and Bridge News along with newspaper Web sites, dozens of smaller Internet sites, and even gossipy chat rooms.
Alex Berenson
#69. Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
Alex Berenson
#71. Mr. Hussein began building Ghazalia in the early 1980s as a home for army officers and other members of his Baath Party. Concrete mansions with pillars and domes are common in the southern half of the district.
Alex Berenson
#72. After a generation of misrule under Mr. Hussein, who built a huge military infrastructure while neglecting civilian investment, and a dozen years of United Nations sanctions, Iraq's unemployment rate tops 50 percent.
Alex Berenson
#73. All of the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater, must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man
Bernard Berenson
#74. Business cycles lengthened greatly during the 20th century, as central banks learned to manage national economies by raising and lowering interest rates.
Alex Berenson
#75. Sergeant Bergdahl may have broken any number of military laws.
Alex Berenson
#76. An attack on the scale of Sept. 11 would rock the markets and the economy.
Alex Berenson
#77. As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
Alex Berenson
#78. Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
Alex Berenson
#79. Determining how many asbestos suits have been filed or how much companies have spent to resolve them is difficult. Cases are filed in state and federal courts, and many companies do not disclose their spending on settlements.
Alex Berenson
#80. As a public servant, William H. Webster has an impeccable resume.
Alex Berenson
#82. In market valuation, Yahoo is worth about as much Walt Disney and the News Corporation combined.
Alex Berenson
#83. and she said she might be interested if you had any available . . .
Laurien Berenson
#84. In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.
Alex Berenson
#85. For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
Alex Berenson
#86. For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
Alex Berenson
#87. You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
Bernard Berenson
#88. No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art ... our world would have remained a jungle.
Bernard Berenson
#89. While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.
Alex Berenson
#90. In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
Alex Berenson
#91. For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.
Alex Berenson
#92. Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
Alex Berenson
#93. Stocks in the United States plunged in 2002 amid fears of war and terrorism, a weak economy, rising oil prices and dozens of corporate scandals. It was the third consecutive annual decline, the first time that has happened in 60 years.
Alex Berenson
#94. I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Bernard Berenson
#95. From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament ... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson
#96. International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
Bernard Berenson
#97. Wal-Mart does not do big mergers, though it will buy much smaller competitors in so-called 'tuck-in acquisitions.'
Alex Berenson
#98. The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
Bernard Berenson
#99. Robert M. Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney, has seen a few financial schemes in his time. As the lead local prosecutor in the world's financial capital, he has battled frauds like the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which stole billions of dollars from investors worldwide.
Alex Berenson
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